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Rdisk Initialization Failed During Unattended Installation

Article ID: 163371

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q163371

SYMPTOMS

If you perform an unattended installation of Windows NT Server or Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and you use the $OEM$ directory and the Cmdlines.txt file to apply a service pack as part of the installation, you may receive the following error message:

RDISK.EXE - DLL INITIALIZATION FAILED The application failed to initialize because the Windows station is shutting down.

You must then click OK to continue the installation.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this error message and to keep the computer from restarting prematurely, you must use the /U and /Z switches on the Update.exe command, as in the following example:

UPDATE /U /Z

Additional query words: RDISK Unattended Sysdiff prodnt restart reboot rebooting

Keywords: kbprb kbsetup KB163371